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New York Times is reporting that Hamilton Island Yacht Club has challenged the Golden Gate Yacht Club and Oracle Team USA for the America's Cup.
Christoper Clarey is reporting that the next challenger of record for the Cup is set to be the Hamilton Island Yacht Club. He notes that Hamilton Island "would be a surprising choice and a welcome one, in that it would bring one of yachting’s leading nations back into the competition."
Australians were the first nation other than the United States to win the trophy, wresting it from the New York Yacht Club in 1983 with the help of an innovative winged keel, however it has been 13 years since an Australian team has challenged the Cup.
Vice commodore of the Golden Gate Yacht Club, Tom Ehman, would “neither confirm nor deny” that Hamilton Island Yacht Club was the next challenger and said that Golden Gate and Oracle Team USA would announce the challenger’s identity in due course.
Christoper Clarey quoted Tom Ehman: “What I can say is that G.G.Y.C. has received a challenge - I received it on the water on Wednesday immediately when our boat crossed the finish line and won. Commodore Norbert Bajurin was with me. We received and then we accepted the challenge, and I’m satisfied that it’s a bona fide yacht club under the deed of gift.”
Read the full two page article here.
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Christoper Clarey
